Characteristic : Characteristics are descriptions of key figures, such as Customer ID, Material Number, Sales Representative ID, Unit of Measure, and Transaction Date. The maximum number of characters allowed for the technical name is 9.
Key Figure : Key Figures are numeric values or quantities, such as Per Unit Sales Price, Quantity Sold, and Sales Revenue. The maximum number of characters allowed for the technical name is 9.
Info Area : Info Areas are used to organize Info Cubes and Info Objects. Each InfoCube is assigned to an Info Area. Through an InfoObject Catalog, each InfoObject is assigned to an Info Area as well. The maximum number of characters allowed for the technical name is 30.
Info Object Catalog : Info Object Catalogs are used to organize InfoObjects. Two types of InfoObject Catalogs exit: one for characteristics and one for key figures. The maximum number of characters allowed for the technical name is 30.
Diagrammatically representation of above key terms :
In Info Area, the Characteristics are SID's (Surrogate-ID) translates a potentially long key for an InfoObject into a short four-byte integer, which saves I/O and memory during OLAP.
Key Figure : Key Figures are numeric values or quantities, such as Per Unit Sales Price, Quantity Sold, and Sales Revenue. The maximum number of characters allowed for the technical name is 9.
Info Area : Info Areas are used to organize Info Cubes and Info Objects. Each InfoCube is assigned to an Info Area. Through an InfoObject Catalog, each InfoObject is assigned to an Info Area as well. The maximum number of characters allowed for the technical name is 30.
Info Object Catalog : Info Object Catalogs are used to organize InfoObjects. Two types of InfoObject Catalogs exit: one for characteristics and one for key figures. The maximum number of characters allowed for the technical name is 30.
Diagrammatically representation of above key terms :
